Settlement Association

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Melksham Town FC are members of the Southern League Division One South and play at the Oakfield Stadium, Melksham. Their longest away journey is probably to Bideford AFC, who play at the Sports Ground, Bideford.

 

[AndyPJG]

MS Oldenburg provides a ferry service from Bideford to the island of Lundy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

If we're accepting Lundy as the name of the settlement as well as the island (and I'm happy to), then we can contiune as follows:

Beacon Hill Cemetery, Lundy was excavated by Charles Thomas in 1969. The cemetery was originally enclosed by a curvilinear bank and ditch, which is still visible in the southwest corner. Celtic Christian enclosures of this type were common in Western Britain; another surviving example is in Luxulyan in Cornwall.

 

[AndyPJG]

Was the intention, I confused it by adding 'island of' afterwards. Lundy does have a residential population.

 

[AndyPJG]

The Saints' Way long distance path runs through here to Padstow in the north.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Egloshayle also lies on the line of the River Camel.

 

[AndyPJG]

Bodmin is also home to St Petroc's Church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quethiock also has a Cornish stone cross.

 

[AndyPJG]

At 330 feet above sea level, the church at Bratton, Wilts is the same elevation.

 

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If we're accepting Lundy as the name of the settlement as well as the island (and I'm happy to)…

This isn’t my speciality, but seems reasonable!

 

[johnnychips]

At 330 feet above sea level, the church at Bratton, Wilts is the same elevation.

Blimey, I’d never heard of Bratton before, but its Wikipedia entry is fascinating. The one I will go for is that the Westbury white horse is actually carved in the hill above Bratton. Osmington near Weymouth also has a white horse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also has a church that is dedicated to St Osmund.

 

[Springs Branch]

The aerospace engineering firm Rolls-Royce Holdings plc has factories at Derby and in Scotland at Inchinnan

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quarrier's Village also lies on the line of the River Gryffe.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Greenock Morton FC train in the Village, away from their usual home ground at Cappielow Park, Greenock.

 

[John Griffiths]

The engineer and inventor James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736. In 1775 he formed a very successful business partnership with Matthew Boulton in Birmingham, and lived in and around that city for the remainder of his life, dying in his home in Handsworth in 1819.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brixton was also affected by the inner-city rioting of 1981.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Bon Marche in Brixton was Britain's first purpose-built department store. The earliest department store in the country may have been (depending on one's definition of department store) Kendall, Milne in Manchester or Bainbridge's in Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newcastle's Grey's Monument is a Grade I listed monument to Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, to acclaim Earl Grey for the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832. It was designed in 1838 by local architects John and Benjamin Green who, amongst many other works, designed Willington Viaduct, Wallsend, between 1837 and 1839.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkandrews-on-Eden is another settlement on the line of Hadrian's Wall.

 

[John Griffiths]

Port Carlisle also (and not entirely unsurprisingly) lies on the route of the Carlisle Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hope Cove in Devon also has a public house called the Hope and Anchor.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution established a lifeboat station at Hope Cove in 1878 on land donated by the Earl of Devon. Four boats, all named Alexandra, were supplied in 1887, 1900 and 1903. The station was closed in April 1930 by which time the neighbouring station at Salcombe had been equipped with a motor lifeboat which could cover Bigbury Bay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes also holds an annual yacht club regatta.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bowness-on-Windermere is also the location of a chain ferry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The "other end" of the cable ferry is at the village of Far Sawrey.

 

[John Griffiths]

Colthouse is also a settlement in the parish of Claife.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brigflatts in Cumbria also has a Quaker Meeting House.

 

[John Griffiths]

The poet Basil Bunting, whose (probably) best known work was entitled Briggflatts (his spelling), and who is buried in the graveyard of the meeting house there, was born in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Scotswood Road is a main route along the Tyne and is mentioned in the song "Blaydon Races". A Geordie folk song, it was written in the 19th century by George "Geordie" Riley who was born in Gateshead on 10th February 1835.